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Such operations involved casualties, and this is, of course, the main argument against our continued involvement. But to contend shat an enclave policy involving "a small but steady drain of casualties" for a number of years would be "more acceptable to American public opinion than escalation." is to misread American politics. No prolonged war is likely to be popular; but clearly the most difficult situation to sustain would be one in which people were still getting killed after most of the land had been given to the Viet Cong, and eventual defeat was a certainty...

Author: By Thomas C. Horne, | Title: Vietnam: A More Realistic View | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...them, the fight for free speech is also a fight for dignity. He tells of one FSM demonstrator who admitted that he didn't give a damn about the free speech issue; the student said he had joined the protests because, "I'm tired of being shat upon." This is one expression of Savio's view that the FSM is a struggle of "the managed"--the students and the faculty--against "the managers"--the administration...

Author: By Parker Donham, | Title: Mario Savio | 12/15/1964 | See Source »

Then there was singing, followed by toasts ("L'chayim!"-to life), followed by more singing, and the first of many talks by the Rebbe, during which everyone remained standing. The Rebbe spoke on the four levels on which, according to the Hasidim, the Bible is written: p'shat or literal meaning, d'rush or simple allegory relating to moral teachings, remez or "the hint" of the mystical relation between man and God, and sod, the secret, dealing with esoteric cosmological matters accessible only to students of the cabala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Lubavitchers | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...last drops of dramatic juice from many of his scenes. In the revival meeting, Susannah's dramatic pin nacle, the congregation sings a realis tic back-country hymn while Evangelist Blitch (Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle) rants in the foreground, and the music gradually transmutes and builds to shat tering climax. On the other hand Composer Floyd is sometimes seduced from the true path by his own melodies, nota bly when he sets Susannah (Soprano Phyllis Curtin) to singing the intermina ble verses of a pretty, folk-song-like lament just when she should be in the depths of despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Discovery in Manhattan | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...foothills of southern Formosa's terraced mountains, youthful soldiers shout "Shat Sha!" (Kill! Kill!) as they lunge at practice dummies with bayonets. The huge military training camp at Feng-shan echoes with machine-gun chatter, and squads of infantrymen work under live ammunition fire. Fengshan's combat course is modeled after the training system used in the U.S. in World War II, and the camp's officers call it "the cradle of the new Chinese army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Before Storms & Winds | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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